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| What guides correct perception of space and accurate visually guided action in space in the long run? |
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| It's not the unique and permanently fixed optical properties of the paths taken by light rays travelling from object to eye. |
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| What was the purpose of Held's article Plasticity in Sensory-Motor Systems? |
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To elucidate the information pathway upon which visual recovery is based. |
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| What do you call the technique of deliberately distorting visual and auditory signals? |
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| How do studies in sensory and motor immobilazation demonstrate that the muscle and motor parts of the nervous system are involved in adaptation as well? |
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Animal performance on perceptual and motor tasks declines. Young of higher mamals fail to develop normal behavior if they undergo sensory or motor deprivation
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What two genuses of animals show dependence of the young on environmental contact in developing coordination and evidence for adaptation to rearrangement? |
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What do you call neural excitation following sensory stimulation that is systematically dependent on movements initiated by the sensing animal? |
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What do you call the result of stimulation that is independent of self-produced movement? |
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| What refers to any excitation of afferent nerves? |
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| What type of movement is contingent to allow the organism to compensate for displaced visual images? |
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Reafferent movement-movement initiated by the animal |
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What is it called when a subject judges a target only relation to himself and not to other visual cues? |
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What do you call it when measurements are made of the two apparent directions of the source and they differ by approximately the angle at which the ears were displaced around the center of the head during the exposure period? |
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Where did the first and second investigation of the Held article take place? |
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1. Brandeis University 2. MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
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Who was one of the first investigators to be interested in the process of adjustment, particularly when it operates in recovery from radical transformations? |
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Which two German physiologists coined the term reafference? |
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1. Erich von Holst 2. Horst Mittelstadt |
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Who was the first to report that misreaching caused by such a displacement is progressively reduced during repeated efforts adn that on removal of the prism the subject who has succeeded in adapting to this displacement will at first misreach in the opposite direction? |
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Which researcher from Tufts university found that decorrelation occured with active movement but not passive movement? |
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| Which researcher first noted that kittens restrained from walking from the time of their earliest exposure to light develop marked deficiencies in the visual control of behavior compared with unrestrained animals reared normally? |
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Which researchers performed the experiment with the cats in the gondola and one turning the wheel? |
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| Richard Held and Alan Hein |
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